Baghdad – WAA
The West Qurna 1 Operating Authority set, on Friday, the date for completing the two advanced isolation banks to improve the specifications of the oil produced with a capacity of up to 200,000 barrels per day.
The Director of the Authority, Asaad Abboud, said in a statement received by the (INA): “The project is to establish two banks for each of the sixth and seventh isolation stations, with a capacity of each bank of 100,000 barrels per day of oil and 70 million standard cubic feet of natural gas for each bank. Thus, the field’s production rate of crude oil will increase to 650,000 barrels per day.”
Aboud added, “The completion rate exceeded (50)% in the (OT3) bank, and the completion rate exceeded (70)% in (OT2).”
He pointed out that “this project is one of the important projects that was started last year, and after the new operator, PetroChina, took over at the beginning of this year, work was done to re-plan it again, and there has been significant progress during the past five months in the development projects’ work,” noting that “the two banks will be completed at the beginning of next year 2025 and efforts will be made to reach a production capacity of 800,000 barrels.”
He pointed out that “these banks were designed according to modern three-phase designs that isolate hot water, gas and other impurities in order to improve the specifications of the oil produced according to Iraqi specifications.”